14.1 Can I make and sell Debian CDs?

Go ahead. You do not need permission to distribute anything we have
released, so that you can master your CD as soon as the beta-test
ends. You do not have to pay us anything. Of course, all CD manufacturers
must honor the licenses of the programs in Debian. For example, many of the
programs are licensed under the GPL, which requires you to distribute their
source code.

Also, we will publish a list of CD manufacturers who donate money, software,
and time to the Debian project, and we will encourage users to buy from
manufacturers who donate, so it is good advertising to make donations.

14.2 Can Debian be packaged with non-free software?

Yes. While all the main components of Debian are free software, we provide a
non-free directory for programs that are not freely redistributable.

CD manufacturers may be able to distribute the programs we have placed
in that directory, depending on the license terms or their private arrangements
with the authors of those software packages. CD manufacturers can also
distribute the non-free software they get from other sources on the same CD.
This is nothing new: free and commercial software are distributed on the same
CD by many manufacturers now. Of course we still encourage software authors to
release the programs they write as free software.

14.3 I am making a special Linux distribution for a "vertical market". Can I use Debian GNU/Linux for the guts of a Linux system and add my own applications on top of it?

Yes. Debian-derived distributions are being created both in close cooperation
with the Debian project itself and by external parties. One can use the
Debian Pure Blends
framework to work together with Debian; DebianEdu/Skolelinux is
one such project.

There are several other Debian-derived distributions already on the market,
such as grml, LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition), Knoppix and Ubuntu, that are
targeted at a different kind of audience than the original Debian GNU/Linux is,
but use most of our components in their product.